Ca' Di Dio
Laidback Venetian hospitality
Lounging by the lagoon
Though parts of Ca’ di Dio date back to medieval times, there’s nothing old-fashioned about its 21st-century update: all Murano-glass chandeliers, polished marble and preserved frescoes. This contemporary take on a traditional Venetian house sits around three internal courtyards, where you can breakfast on delicate Venetian pastries and ristretto, or find a shady spot beneath softly scented mimosa and magnolia trees to leaf through the hotel’s own inside guide to the best hidden local attractions. A sense of calm pervades throughout the hotel, from the bigger-than-average bedrooms to an airy lobby that’s decorated with antique statues and porticoes from old churches, though the true path to enlightenment is more likely to be found in the spa’s treatment rooms.
Facilities
Номера
66 rooms across three floors, including 57 suites.
Checkout
Noon, but flexible for a charge and subject to availability. Check-in, 3pm.
Больше сведений
Rates usually include breakfast.
Also
Don’t be put out by the lack of a traditional front desk or concierge. The hotel’s ‘Venetian house’ ethos means that instead of a rotating cast of identikit staff, you’ll have one or two friendly points of contact to look after you throughout your stay.
Фитнес-центр
Бесплатный доступ в интернет
Прачечная
Возможно размещение с животными
Рестораны на территории
Спа
At the Hotel
Two restaurants, spa and gym, free WiFi. In-rooms: flatscreen TV, minibar, coffee machine, kettle, bathrobes, slippers and air-conditioning.
Our Favourite Rooms
Make like a doge and check in to one of the hotel’s two Altana Suites. Upping the wow factor spectacularly, each has a staircase that climbs to its own private roof terrace. Up here in your ivory (ok, mostly wooden) tower, you can spend cocktail hour soaking in uninterrupted sunset views across the shimmering lagoon to the Benedictine spire of San Giorgio Maggiore. The other suites are no slouches either, all with bags of space (unusual by Venice hotel standards), polished stone floors, exposed beams, upholstered panelling, Murano-glass lamps and gleaming marble bathrooms.
Spa
Relaxing treatments or an adrenaline-pumping workout can be found at the Pura spa and wellness centre. There's also a sauna and steam bath, €25 each for 30 minutes (or €40 for both).
Packing Tips
Pack your biggest, floppiest straw hat for those eating-gelato-in-a-gondola photo opportunities.
Дети
Extra beds can be added to suites on request and babysitting is available for an extra charge.
Галерея
Food & Drink
Top Table
If weather permits, your best bet for lagoon views is on Vero’s terrace, where people-watching is de rigueur at lunch, and the sun setting on San Giorgio and the lagoon over dinner might even make you feel like you’re in your very own Monet masterpiece.
Дресс-код
You’re meant to feel at home here, so dress codes are informal. But this is Italy, so you might want to leave the jogging pants at home and bring something a little more eye-catching for dining in Vero.
Hotel Restaurant
Polished Venetian floors, frescoed ceilings and crisp white tablecloths are the order of the day at Vero, the hotel’s main restaurant, with seating on the terrace overlooking the lagoon to San Giorgio Maggiore in the warmer months. The ethos here is simple yet refined Venetian home cooking – traditional fish, meat and pasta dishes made using wholly local produce and ingredients from the courtyard garden – served alongside handpicked wines from the Veneto. Vero is open for lunch and dinner.
Essentia is a less formal affair. Designed for relaxed daytime dining and snacking, it’s set in the internal courtyard amid the fragrant trees and shrubs, meandering pathways and two original stone wells.
Hotel Bar
Just off the lobby is Alchemia, a gleaming cocktail bar where mixologists knock up traditional and experimental concoctions using local ingredients.
Last Orders
Breakfast is served in Essentia from 7am until 10.30am, with all-day dining thereafter. In Vero, dinner is from 7pm to 11pm. Lunch is available here during the summer months only. Alchemia opens at 11am and closes at 1am.
Planes
Venice’s Marco Polo airport is served by the Alilaguna water bus (vaporetto), which drops you right in front of the hotel at Arsenale. Vaporetto tickets can be purchased individually, or in discounted one- to three-day passes, in case you’re planning to sightsee your socks off.
Trains
Arrivals at Venezia Santa Lucia can also take the vaporetto for the 40-minute ride to Arsenale. Landlubbers should hop off a couple of stops early for an espresso at Piazza San Marco. The hotel lies a 10-minute stroll along the lagoon from here.
Automobiles
Venice’s narrow alleys and waterways mean that – unless you’re rich enough to own an amphibious vehicle – your best bet is to park on the mainland, which is cheaper and less prone to traffic snarl-ups than the roads around the city centre. From Mestre, you can take the train or ferry into the centre.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Even the laziest explorer will find ticking off Venice's biggest attractions a breeze. It’s just a 10-minute waterfront stroll to Piazza San Marco, where the cathedral’s grand Byzantine domes, ludicrously opulent Doge’s Palace and Bridge of Sighs will provide more Instagrammable photo opportunities than your last three holidays combined. If your poor beleaguered feet are equal to the challenge, you’re only about another 10 minutes from here to the Rialto Bridge and Peggy Guggenheim Collection. But if even that seems too much like hard work, simply flop into a gondola and let someone else take the strain for a while.
For a taste of the true Venice, stroll east from the hotel away from the centre, through ramshackle narrow streets where washing hangs drying between buildings overhead, and small fishing boats bob on not-so-grand canals. Here the intrepid traveller will be rewarded with artisan shops, bars and cafés along Via Garibaldi – a wide boulevard beloved of Venetians.
This is also where you’ll find the Giardini della Biennale, a parkland oasis that plays host to the Venice Art Biennale every other year. Stroll the leafy boulevards admiring the magnificent monuments and palatial pavilions that dot the landscape. Art fiends visiting between May and November in odd-numbered years can expect to experience a dizzying smorgasbord of contemporary works from across the globe, displayed throughout the Giardini, Arsenale dockyards and beyond.
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